Word: meekness
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...with Mrs. Kister traveling through the Middle West to persuade bookstores to stock it. At 6 o'clock one winter morning Mrs. Kister was in Indianapolis when her husband called her from Manhattan. The Book-of-the-Month Club had taken Zofia Kossak's Blessed Are the Meek...
...jampacked St. Patrick's Cathedral for the celebration of the Mass of Pentecost,† blinked not an eyelash when a slight, Sunday-dressed worshiper stood up at the altar rail, heaved two poorly aimed eggs which splattered at the Archbishop's feet. The egg-thrower, a meek Czech alien, explained to the police: the Archbishop had "said something I didn't like...
...Argentina's press was cringing before the Farrell regime. The great La Prensa was in a meek mood after its five-day suspension (TIME, May 8). La Nation, the No. 2 paper, last week averted a threatened eight-day suspension by apologizing for a mildly critical article and firing its author...
...Cicco, cafe-famed as Gloria Vanderbilt's husband, also as a onetime "assistant wolf," took a double-barreled beating in a Manhattan nightclub. Di Cicco, an Army Air Forces lieutenant, was amusing himself by loudly abusing a small, meek newspaperman. A quiet Texan by the name of Benny Bickers objected. Di Cicco called him something, neglected to smile. Benny knocked him down. Di Cicco left the club, waited for Bickers in the street. When the Texan came out, di Cicco took off his coat, put up his dukes. Benny knocked him down again. What di Cicco learned the hard...
Since the late great Justice Holmes died, in 1935, he has been the subject of eight books and 47 major articles. The latest is the most romantic - a fictionalized biography by Catherine Drinker Bowen, co-author with Barbara Von Meek of Beloved Friend (TIME, Feb. 1, 1937), fictionalized biography of the Russian composer Peter Tchaikovsky...